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NOTES:

April 9th: finish Hamlet and The Bhagavad-Gita
April 26th: Final Group presentations
April 28th: Recitation begins....

HOMEWORK
Blog about a blog (most important to you) what you have learned, what difference does it make......blog about the blog/person who taught you something....

Hamlet relevant to Bhagavad-Gita.....pay special attention to Act V Scene II......not the whiny Hamlet, very last scene, Hamlet back from England....religious theme, no pontificating....Hamlet must be detactched....secular kind of work, but religious themes...

Abby's blog, the real hero of the play, Horation, becomes the poet that tells the story....
Tai, pun on Jung
Pat is Patting
Kary is Kari-ing or Bowle-ing
Ron, existential....profound inspirational book he will carry with him....
Kevin.....discovered something....about time in Amlet and The Bhagavad-Gita, instances so quick......you can only remember them...read his blog.
'Nicks Notes' to the Bhagavad-Gita

We watched a brief clip from The Mahabharata, victory & defeat are the same....in the blink of an eye, augenblick, time should come to a stop.........
in the clip Sanjaya speaking when Krishna's lips are moving
Kevin would freeze the battlefield during conversation......
"how long will they be talking" ruins the notion of frozen time
Kevin......point of action within inaction

cannot act in the face of consequences of that action.....if you hadn't done something....a catastrophe wouldn't have happened....
one thing to do...nothing.......if I hadn't decided to go to my friends Christmas Party over winter break I would never have run over my cat.......

get to place where Hamlet and Arjuna are...

Hamlet, runs the sword through the curtains, kills girlfriend's dad....Polonius.
entire day a battlefield
everyday you come to class, another battlefield..........raise intensity to get to Hamlet and Arjuna

Kari's blog....read about Job....rather never been born
Doug - seems everything is pushing toward action

Oedipus....acted....

**Krishna remembers his previous reincarnations.......we do not
doesn't matter what Arjuna saw.....
dark epiphany......

HOMEWORK, explain how Hamlet became different in the last scene....